Beautiful and accessible, and literally just a short block from another very accessible lighthouse (Which charges $10 per person to climb, a bit much IMHO. Oh, but the museum in the keepers house is free. Me and my girlfriend went there, found out we'd have to drop $20 just to climb, and decided walking the breakwater was better)

Yeah, I'd pulled up and parked across the street from Kenosha Southport. The Lighthouse door was open, and a fellow was sitting in a chair in there. I got out for a few photo ops, saw the little sign out front for $ 10 a head, went back and sat in the car for a bit more. It was a beautiful summer afternoon, and nobody, but nobody, came over there to take the tower tour or even to look at the Keeper's house in the half-hour or so I was sitting there. Drove down the hill to the pier light, and the whole place was packed. Couldn't even see a place to park.

Seems a bit salty to me, also. If it was $ 5 a head, I would have done it, but for $ 10 a head, we gave it a pass. That said, though, I feel they still have done a fine job in the restoration and maintenance, considering how the place looked just a few years ago.

I have been meaning to go up there to climb the tower, but have never made it this year. Maybe next year. I know the money is going back towards the lighthouse, so I don't mind paying, but I usually spend a lot in the gift shops because those profits go to the light also. I might be driving up to Wind Point next weekend, they usually have the lights up and I get my Holiday background picture for my computer there or at North Point. I will stop in Kenosha to see if they did any Holiday decorations. I was at Gross Point Last weekend and no holiday decorations there, only some lights next door at the Art Place.